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Contos de fuchile - racconti da focolare -, con questo dolce nome che rievoca tutta la tiepida serenità delle lunghe serate famigliari passate accanto al paterno camino, da noi vengono chiamate le fiabe, le leggende e tutte le narrazioni favolose e meravigliose, smarrite nella nebbia di epoche diverse dalla nostra. Il popolo sardo, specialmente nelle montagne selvagge e negli altipiani desolati dove il paesaggio ha in se stesso qualcosa di misterioso e di leggendario, con le sue linee silenziose e deserte o con l'ombra intensa dei boschi dirupati, è seriamente immaginoso, pieno di superstizioni bizzarre e infinite. Nella stretta mancanza di denari in cui si trova ha bisogno di figurarsi t...

Brought up as a servant in the austere household of an uncle, Marianna is now a woman of property. But at thirty, she knows little of life. For others in the town of Nuoro and its surrounding hill farms, Sardinia is a harsh and unforgiving place. When she meets a former companion in service, now forced into banditry to support his family, her calm existence is turned upside down. The defining moment of her life has come. Does Marianna love for Simone Sole triumph over her common sense, social convention and what is expected of her by her family? Grazia Deledda explores the layers of temptation and doubt in a novel of Sardinian life coloured with her own intimate knowledge of its beauties and dangers.

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A native of Sardinia, Grazia Deledda's novels are mostly set in the rugged hills around her home town of Nuoro. Her characters reflect the difficult lives of people still constrained by ancient customs and practices. Her voice is powerful, her tone often sombre. But her wide-ranging talent had a sunnier side, revealed in many of her later works. The Christmas Present, first published in 1930, brings together a collection of folk tales, children's stories and personal reminiscences that portray with humour and affection the lighter side of Sardinian life. This is a book that will charm and delight, opening a window on to the Sardinia of old and the formative influences on a Nobel laureate.

The ancient traditions of Sardinia feature heavily in this early collection. The stories collected in The Queen of Darkness, published in 1902 shortly after Deledda's marriage and move to Rome, reflect her transformation from little-known regional writer to an increasingly fêted and successful mainstream author. The two miniature psycho-dramas that open the collection are followed by stories of Sardinian life in the remote hills around her home town of Nuoro. The stark but beautiful countryside is a backdrop to the passions, misadventures and injustices which shape the lives of its rugged but all too human inhabitants.

La raccolta dei Racconti sardi venne pubblicata per la prima volta nel 1894 ed è composta da otto novelle. Tra le altre, Il mago e Ancora magie sono due novelle che testimoniano la profonda conoscenza, da parte della Deledda, dell'attitudine alla magia assai diffusa in Sardegna. Entrambe si rifanno alle pratiche di medicina popolare e agli antichi culti che legano il folklore sardo alle religioni primitive: il primo racconta di un mago e di una misteriosa pietra parlante; il secondo dei presunti poteri di un olio consacrato. Sebbene possano sembrare due storie di fantasia, si tratta al contrario di due "racconti storici" dei quali si occuparono, come specificò la Deledda in una nota, "persino i giornali dell'isola" (Aonia edizioni).

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A translation of Grazia Deledda's final novel, an autobiographically based portrayal of an Italian woman coming to terms with breast cancer at the cusp of the twentieth century.

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Questo è il romanzo più noto dell'autrice (Premio Nobel per la letteratura nel 1926).Le vicende si svolgono nella Sardegna d'inizio XX secolo; povertà, onore e orgoglio, superstizione, emergono nelle vicende della famiglia Pintor: quattro figlie e un padre "all'antica".Lia, la figlia più giovane, ribelle, fugge "in continente".Il padre ne morirà.La figlia incontrerà un uomo da cui avrà un figlio che in seguito alla morte della madre andrà in Sardegna.La capacità descrittiva dell'autrice s'imprime nel lettore: i paesaggi, la casa dei protagonisti, le feste ma anche i viaggi introspettivi del servo di casa Pintor.

Âmes honnêtes, roman familial, avec préface de Roger Bonghi, traduit de l'italien... par Mme Fanny RivièreDate de l'édition originale: 1899Le présent ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrages de la littérature Française mise en place avec la BNF.HACHETTE LIVRE et la BNF proposent ainsi un catalogue de titres indisponibles, la BNF ayant numérisé ces oeuvres et HACHETTE LIVRE les imprimant à la demande.Certains de ces ouvrages reflètent des courants de pensée caractéristiques de leur époque, mais qui seraient aujourd'hui jugés condamnables.Ils n'en appartiennent pas moins à l'histoire des idées en France et sont susceptibles de présenter un intérêt scientifique ou historique.Le sens de notre démarche éditoriale consiste ainsi à permettre l'accès à ces oeuvres sans pour autant que nous en cautionnions en aucune façon le contenu.Pour plus d'informations, rendez-vous sur www.hachettebnf.fr

Colombi e sparvieri, romanzo di Grazia Deledda. 3° migliaioDate de l'édition originale: 1913Le présent ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrages de la littérature Française mise en place avec la BNF.HACHETTE LIVRE et la BNF proposent ainsi un catalogue de titres indisponibles, la BNF ayant numérisé ces oeuvres et HACHETTE LIVRE les imprimant à la demande.Certains de ces ouvrages reflètent des courants de pensée caractéristiques de leur époque, mais qui seraient aujourd'hui jugés condamnables.Ils n'en appartiennent pas moins à l'histoire des idées en France et sont susceptibles de présenter un intérêt scientifique ou historique.Le sens de notre démarche éditoriale consiste ainsi à permettre l'accès à ces oeuvres sans pour autant que nous en cautionnions en aucune façon le contenu.Pour plus d'informations, rendez-vous sur www.hachettebnf.fr